Hi everyone.
I am having a nightmare trying to bridge my modem with my new DIR-855 router.
Originally I was using a Linksys WAG54Gv2 Wireless-G ADSL gateway at home and all was running smoothly. Then I decided on upgrading my network to Gigabit and Wireless-N, so after much research, decided on buying the DIR-855.
Reconfigured my Linksys to "bridge mode only" and adjusted the settings accordingly. Connected it from port 1 to the WAN port on the DIR-855. Then went to the DIR-855 and configured it for PPPoE (dynamic IP) with my ISP's settings. Originally left the DNS servers as 0.0.0.0 so that the DIR-855 could grab them from the modem.
Rebooted the router and checked the status. OLED said that I was "ONLINE" and the status screen showed that everything was okay, and had autoconfigured the DNS settings. Then I attempted to connect to a website. Web browser would resolve DNS no problems, but then it would just sit there saying "waiting for response from remote server". Attempted to ping a website, and it resolved the DNS and was giving me successful pings.
Went back to the configuration screen of DIR-855 and entered DNS servers manually, still no good. Enabled DNS relay. Still no good. So in the end I thought that maybe my Linksys didn't want to talk to the D-Link, so I went out and bought a D-Link DSL-520B ADSL2+ Single port ethernet router. Surely D-Link to D-Link would have to work!! Wrong!! It still had the exact same problems as the Linksys!!
So, the only way I can make it work now is by having the Linksys (or my new D-Link modem) configured to establish the PPPoE internet connection and enable DHCP, and then connect it to the WAN port of the DIR-855 and set the DIR-855 to Dynamic IP (DHCP). Obviously the problem with this is that i'm unable to do port forwarding properly, which is a big problem for me. My firmware on the DIR-855 is 1.12WW.
Why isn't this working? Please help!!! Thanks
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Topic: Unable to bridge modem successfully with DIR-855 (Read 5908 times)